Red Brown Earth

 I grew up on 'Spring Creek' and went to school at Tullamore Central (a small 7 -10 Public School). Even though I don't live there now I still feel connected to it. It has been a major constant in my life. When I was of high school age I enrolled at Parkes High (Public 7-12 School) some 114 kms away. It was here where I received an education that ultimately led me to pursue a life and career off the farm. I was never persuaded not to pursue another career, rather encouraged to find a more profitable pursuit than farming. In an agriculture class at Parkes High I learned that text books referred to the soils of the region as red brown. Now I make ceramic artworks that attempt to reflect the place through; the materials I use, abstract representations of the sky, the earth, weather patterns and other natural cycles experienced while visiting the location.

Lambs August 2007